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FriendFeed emphasizes conversations and is more multimedia friendly. However, it is more "complicated" than Twitter. - Eddie Awad

Yep, it sucks here :) - Sameer

Alex Scoble - yes. and I see a good reason now - if I don't understand what it's for in 20 seconds - it's not worth it. Day passed and I'm still not sure. :) - Alex Gorbachev

How long does it take you to see the worth of a sheet of paper? - Alex Scoble

this becomes tough and confusing. some twitter stars say seesmic desktop is superior, others don't want to give up on tweetdeck, now there is tweetvisor. Sigh. cannot google move in and replace it all with one Uber Interface? :) - roland legrand

I think it's important to just go with whatever client suits your needs. All clients have something slightly different and all have their pros and cons. Folks shouldn't be obsessed with which client is "best" as its a very subjective area. - Richard Barley

Tweetvisor is asking me to log in, so they have my password? My twitter password is unique (no not the word unique) so if it's ever compromised all other accounts are ok. I suppose I'll try it.... - Mike Nencetti

the application takes 30 seconds to a minute to load.....zzzzzzz - Mike Nencetti

+! Richard What works very well for some people won't work at all for others. (and roland, you should read Jesse Stay's blog post on using Gmail as a Twitter client http://staynalive.com/article... ) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I don't say that about either Twitter or FF - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I think the reason is that FF is more civilized and has not yet attracted the funboys of each service/brand/whatever - George Iordanou

To me it's that Friendfeed is a very flexible and powerful service that requires a bit more web savvy to really grok compared to Twitter. I don't think everyone should have to know how RSS works or what the other 94,000 socnets out there do but if you're interested and willing to investigate then FF turns into a great homebase for one's news, community, and info discovery activity. - Daniel J. Pritchett

@Steve - top 3 reasons you use Evernote? - Dave Hodson

@Zee I am still unsure they will. I don't store anything of value in Evernote. - Steve Rubel

@Dave the bookmarklet and syncing. - Steve Rubel

I'm still waiting for encryption by note and notebook in Evernote, and hierarchical notebooks. - Rod Bauer from twhirl

@Steve - how is this different from Backpack? - Dave Hodson

@Dave Backpack is only for lists and notes - although you can do more with it. Evernote is a database. Sign up and upload some images with text in it. I don't keep my todos there. I use Things. - Steve Rubel

Made the switch to Evernote a few months back and have enjoyed the service. Tried it for GTD but now using Toodledo (@Steve - Agree Things is great but really needed a way to access it on other computers, how did you find that?) - Robert Mattar

@Robert, I store the file on MobileMe. http://culturedcode.com/things... - Steve Rubel

I really like Evernote, but what keeps me from using it is the inability to export your notes on a mac...The only export available is to an Evernote file...I don't like feeling locked in like that. - Chris Rossini

Steve, re Things on MobileMe: the page says "Choosing a web based location like iDisk is not possible. " . Is this incorrect? How are you doing it exactly? - Meryn Stol

@Meryn, simple. Move your folder as instructed here to iDisk then point Things at it http://culturedcode.com/things... - Steve Rubel

Steve, then the info on that page is probably wrong, because it states that you *can't* store the library on iDisk. At least, that's what I make of it... - Meryn Stol

Meryn, I have it working fine. Move the directory they mention on that page to a director in idisk then point it - Steve Rubel from IM

I wish there were an Evernote for task management. I've never really gotten into Things anyway. - Meryn Stol

I was a big google notebook fan but have since fallen in love with Evernote. - Russ Jackson

I admit, I only started using Evernote because of the Google Notebook dump, but I'm glad it happened now, Evernote does most of what I need. - Barbara

you gotta love the nice buildup of usage and it's mobile agnostic. I've tried jott too. Voice has a useful purpose...its' easy - Tery Spataro

Posting the link to the original author's blog, as neither Gizmodo, nor the site that Gizmodo's links to, points directly here. - DeWitt Clinton

This is one of those things that make me go "d'oh, why didn't I think of that [while my roomba was still working]". The sprial reminds me of a particle accelerator collision trace. Very cool. - Jasmin Patry

I wish they'd make a Roomba which would steam-clean my carpet :) - Ray Cromwell

It kinda looks like a web pattern from those spiders on drugs: http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn... - Ginger Makela Riker

@Ginger - for a second, I thought you meant these spiders on drugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - DeWitt Clinton

@DeWitt Hi.lar.ious video. - Ginger Makela Riker

Dewitt++ for linking to the source. - Andrew C

Reminds me of spirograph. - Louis Gray

Time exposure was a very cool idea. And then the spiders on drugs vid is just way too funny. - Jim Espinoza

double-like! - Micah Wittman

I wonder where I can get one of these in Japan? - Rick Cogley

Reminds me of a demo video I watched yesterday for the automatic lawn mowers - Robert DeBord

Lightsaber !!! - Brodie Beta

Classic controller. Download Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3 now! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Mario Kart - Alex Scoble

Mario Galaxy - Thomas Acosta

That's awesome, all I have is a PSP :( - Patrick from twhirl

go old school, like Eric says. Dr. Mario and Tetris Party are great classics - Jon

Guitar Hero World Tour! - Nicola Quinn

AnXbox - Chris Gilmore from twhirl

you must purchase Guitar Hero World Tour - get the entire thing (drums, etc) - Dave Hodson

Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros Brawl. If you have old firmware version intall the Homebrew channel! Don't buy ANY third party games. They are all feces. And the cross-bow training game is wack too. - pixelcrafter from twhirl

what kind of games do you like? - Karl Evard

@ pixelcrafter most third party games suck but some are really good like 'no more heroes' and 'zack and wiki' - Karl Evard

Sheryl, I was never interested in video games before the Wii. Apparently that's the market it was originally aimed at and they certainly got me hooked :) - Nicola Quinn

World of Goo is a must-buy. And anything above an 80 on http://apps.metacritic.com/games... is a safe bet - Nathan Chase

Got to get the wii fit board! - David

Mario Kart, Rock Band 2 and Wii Fit - Herb Hernandez

Mario Kart. FTW - Roberto Bonini

I don't have a Wii, but I do have a Nintendo DS and I have Mario Kart for it and it's awesome, so it must be even better on the Wii. I recommend Mario Kart Wii - Eevee from IM

Boom Blox, De Blob - Hunt

I always suggest Wii Play for the extra controller, plus Cow Racing is hella fun. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Just got a Wii Fit from Costco. Finally in stock. Time to load my que in Gamefly - Joe K

I second boom blox - joey from BuddyFeed

Super Mario galaxy and tetris party in Wii ware. World of goo is pretty good and boom box is a must. - Rob Brammeld

You have to get the Wii Fit Leo. It is so much fun and of course it is good for you. - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

I want one...lucky! - Susan Beebe

Mushroom Men! - Laura Zickus

I second the motion for a Wii Fit. It's more fun than you're bouncing ball seat. For real fun I agree with the calls for Guitar Hero World Tour. Even Guitar Hero 3 is extreme fun. The tunes are just right for guys our age. GHWT however looks like it goes leaps forward. I just got mine and will be playing as soon as I get some free time. No matter what just enjoy the Wii experience and ALWAYS wear the wrist straps! - Derek Erb

Mario Kart and Wii Fit - James Tallman

yep wii fit is great and of course either guitar hero or rock band depending on what you like..acessories dont work with each other though.. - Samuel Lewis from twhirl

Wii Sport for the tennis game, Top Spin 3 for, erm the tennis again. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Definitely a rechargeable battery pack and a dock to charge the Wiimotes. I have one from Nyko. - Rodfather

Wiiii! ;) - Tyson Key

I want to get one but can't justify the over-priced bundles....gahhhhh - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Boomblox - Eric Rice

rayman raving rabids - Amber, Random Time Lord

hear great things about Guitar Hero World Tour...so I'm giving 3 away starting Feb 1st on my site. We will see how much response I get from that. - MarkCarras

Legend of Zelda! Mario Cart, Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros - Jen Kuiper

Mario Kart for sure. - Jonathon

Mario Kart! - John Grinde

If you dig the ultra-violence, check out Man-Hunt 2. - Christian (Simply X)

We don't have a population problem; we have a distribution problem ;) - MVB (Grinch of FF)

We have the brains' problem:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I can't wait to visit Hong Kong one day - Shevonne

I <3 CWB. Did you also see the Dancing Tonkatsu near the Times Square buildings? (I hear he's there every night except Sunday.) - Chris Prince

@Chris: A dancing pork cutlet? Nope, did not see that. Is it worth a look? - Jess Lee

we (ie polyvore) should seriously all move to asia... - pasha

Yes，you guys should - kelvin

@Jess, It's surreal to see, but at this point, your expectations will probably be too high. :) In any case, he was around where Russell St and Matheson St meet, near Exit A from CWB MTR. I'll send you a pic. - Chris Prince

yes，its ez!but,u know,when america got more and more sleepy from now,asia didn't... - kelvin

Sogo in cwb-fresh sushi from japan. Half price after 9 pm. A daily trip for us when stationed there. - Andrew Leyden

I love HK, I can't wait to go back. - clarke thomas

Louis obviously has been teaching Michael how not to sleep and just keep writing posts. - Rob Diana

Like you, Rob, Mike was born with talent that is hard to teach. This is his natural flow. - Louis Gray

Wait, was that a compliment in there? Sneaky. - Rob Diana

I'm just counting down the moments until the first "Is Mike Fruchter the New Louis Gray" posts start! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Nicely done Mike - nice blend of cool ideas in there! thanks!! - Susan Beebe

awesome Mike, ok am gonna hold out on my list for a coupla weeks then. Don't wanna be giving people too many ideas :) - Zee.

Main: Best tech discussion place. - Igor Poltavskiy

#26: Reading about Friendfeed - Eric Rice

Haha +1 for Eric. - Mack D. Male

A lot of great suggestions - Mason Blake

#27: Reading comments about reading about FriendFeed - Tyson Key

This is really helpful....still wrapping my head around FF. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Great post. I use FriendFeed as a Yahoo! Pipes replacement. Set up a FF account, bring in all your favorite RSS feeds, publish your FF to Twitter, and get updates in Twitter when there are updates to your favorite blogs. Great for industry specific Twitter groups. Wish you could do this in Rooms rather than having to set up a new FF account. Both the FF and Twitter accounts can be private, too. - Dominic Jones from twhirl

IRWebReport, the only thing Pipes still does better is the handling of dupes. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@ aka Tina, I wouldn't know. I tried using Pipes a long time ago and gave up after 10 minutes. This is one case where FriendFeed *is* simple. :-) - Dominic Jones

meta overload on #26 and #27 =) - Adam Singer

I don't mind as much but then again if the content is brief then I am less likely to click through anyway whereas a full text feed will more likely get read. Ads in full text feeds are the way to go as long as the ads aren't too obtrusive. - Peter Kelley

Unfortunately I don't think this is possible in Joomla if one uses "Read More" breaks in articles for appearance purposes in a template. It goes into the RSS feed excerpted. - Glenn Batuyong

I also prefer reading full RSS feeds instead of partial ones. The worst? As you point out: title-only feeds. I usually unsubscribe to these. I also hate when a post is really way too long on the feed. Complicated am I? :-) Now, I must admit that, as one that needs his blog for income, I see the reason behind the partial feeds. - Paul Papadimitriou

100% agree. I won't click through or share. Steven wins. - Louis Gray

I agree & applaud the Guardian newspaper here in UK for changing to full feeds. Can't believe BBC still stuck on partial. - Richard McKay

I only subscribe to one partial feed blog (that of a friend) for exactly this reason. Hope those partial feeders out there can tell me why they think that I would use their RSS link to import in my Reader, and then have to continue clicking though someplace outside of it? *sigh* - Victoria Plautia

I usually skip through the partial feeds myself. - Adriana

I prefer partial feeds for newspapers and magazines, full feeds for blogs. - Mitch Wagner

So if nobody goes to a site because they can view all the content in a feed, how does one make money? - Mark Trapp

@Mark: Good posts makes me click on full feeds when I want to see possible comments or join discussion (which shows how important they are, too) - Jemm

You make money by not being lame and relying on adverts.. it's not a real revenue stream and we're fucking ourselves by using them. Try a donate button at the bottom of every post or offer some form of subscription. You will always have a certain percentage that won't pay no matter what you do, but some will. Try to come up with exclusive content for subscribers only. I think the next big change for the net will be the implosion of the ad market. - alphaxion

agreed 110%. It shows respect to your readers first and foremost. If your content is good they'll click on to your site - Duncan Riley

Isn't FriendFeed one giant aggregation of partial feeds? I don't see any full articles here, just titles, image grabs and commentary by my friends, yet it's the only feed I am glued to for hours a day. - Bill Strathearn

Agree: No Click Through for partial feeds for blogs. However, most newspapers are still only partial feeds - so its kinda har with them. Agree with alphaxion on the "donate" button - for blogs.... but again I'll find that unlikely for newspapers. - Peter Efland

@bill I'd call FF "filtered aggregation and commentary" ;) - alphaxion

Doesn't it all depend on how well written the first paragraph is? I can't say that I don't read 100% of my parcial feeds. Some of them are interesting enough to make me click it. - Nuno Curado from twhirl

Yes partial feeds are silly when you can advertise directly in the feed - sean

I don't understand the hostility towards partial feeds. If it looks interesting, I'll click through. Why wouldn't I? Why am I supposed to be so vehemently opposed to the idea of the author wanting me to go to their website? - DGentry

@Bill Strathem - the difference with FriendFeed is that it is just an aggregator of post headlines and that is the expectation. FriendFeed being an aggregator does promote click through to the story. That doesn't mean I don't have a problem with it - as the conversations here I as a blogger would prefer on the blog but I'm just happy to have people clicking through to read. With headline or partial feeds there isn't that same click through. Too many thoughts to try and fit in here so maybe [...] - Steven Hodson

[..] I'll write my thoughts up on the difference later - Steven Hodson

@Nuno I have yet to see a compelling enough first paragraph on a partial feed yet that makes me click through. - Steven Hodson

@Denton I guess it boils down to available time. If I have feeds that are full text they are saving me time. with partial feeds I have to first read the partial text - gauge whether it is interesting enough - then click through .. wait for the page to load .. either re-read what I have already read to find where to pick up or skim over until I find that spot. With full text in a way I guess it is like the author is appreciative of your time. It may not seem that important but maybe more of an unconscious... - Steven Hodson

@Gregory .. that is a very fair point and one I think that a lot of bloggers wrestle with - I now I do with every long post. *I think* it boils down to a couple of things - aesthetics - a page of long posts get's unwieldy and lopsided. the other thing is that given the amount of traffic that comes into blogs from either direct links and/or search the front page is in someways secondary. So rather than deal with page load times with full text post on the main page make sure long posts don't add to the prob. - Steven Hodson

The answer: because I'll only use a todo-list manager if it runs inside gmail. - j1m

Task management is a neat feature on gmail. A lot of people will not use a separate task management tool but will be happy to use the lightweight version built inside GMail. - Bindu Reddy

Needs to sync w/ BlackBerry tasks like RTM does. Then they'll have a winner. - Shawn Farner

Because everything else is too complex, requires too much commitment, and, at best, is a close second to a pencil and notebook. - Jonathan Terleski

No good, Google should focus on the main application. They are going the Apple way by implementing every tiny application you can think of with limited features, while others can do this already much better (see RTM). They should open the Gmail API instead. Being a powerfull application platform is much better than the 105th ToDoList provider. - Michael Zehrer

@Jonathan: So true! - Dennis Bjørn Petersen from twhirl

Now bring me a sync tool to work with Thunderbird - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

Personally I'll stick with the "Remember The Milk" for Gmail plugin http://tinyurl.com/2kkbdb if only because you can add it to Gcal too http://www.rememberthemilk.com/service... - Jordi Soler

I'll stick with RTM because it does recognize what I actually mean when I type "Lunch Friday" and set the date automatically. The possibility to set priorities is another advantage of RTM. - Nick

Because it annoys Microsoft. - Chris Baskind

Found my answer but these are pretty Hidden features. Only found by accident, an average user will struggle with this right now. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Found the full screen with the tabs across the top for all networks, nice - MedicalQuack

The world needs a screencast of PeopleBrowsr because a laptop's acreage is way too limited. - Bernie Goldbach

Hi Barbara, where did you find the full screen with the tabs across the top? Was this on peoplebrowsr.com? Thanks a lot. - SHHHE

Mark, to add more IDs, you can click on 'Add IDs' on the bottom of the page. Cheers! - SHHHE

i can never get the thing to work, won't even log in... you think they started "promoing" or whatever a little early?? - Terry O'Fee

Terry how is it going now? Are you using FF3 or Safari 3.1? Thanks for your help. - SHHHE

ff3 - to be honest ive never used safari.. ill give it another try, thanks.. - Terry O'Fee

Thanks Terry, FF3 should be fine :) - SHHHE

I tried PeopleBrowsr but couldn't figure it out. - Brett Nordquist

I'm using FF3 here (- it's all I use, except for testing work.) and it's fine. - Ian May

Hi Brett, could you tell me a little bit more. I would be very happy to have you on board. - SHHHE

Ian, so happy to hear that! - SHHHE

testing peoplebrowsr.com in Google Chrome Browser and .... is working ! - Rocky

Sucks on the Eee :( - Bec Rowe @d0tski

@Rocky I was just testing it in Chrome and it wasn't working for me. But it worked fine in Firefox 3. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Wait, I take that back. I just tried it again and it worked fine. Great! - Mathew™ one of a kind